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Review: Writing Historical Fiction

If you are writing historical fiction, you may be interested in taking Dr. Séamus Ó Maitiú’s Dublin-based Lord Mayor’s Certificate in Local Studies course which runs from September to April on Tuesday evenings at Pearse Street Library. The course will give you a clear overview of the Irish resources and reference materials available to historical researchers. I completed the course in April 2014 and found it extremely useful for my own historical novel research.

The requirement to write a short dissertation in a subject of my own choosing also helped me focus on the completion of my own novel research. I now find that I am equipped with the historical details required to get my novel polished and ready for submission to agents and publishers later this year. I would highly recommend the course to any new budding historical novelists out there.